Park City Opera presents a salon event in Holladay, UT for supporters and friends of Park City Opera benefitting Park City Opera’s Summer 2025 Mainstage production. Join us for an evening of art song, light food, and drink. Address to be provided upon RSVP. Click here to RSVP.
6:00 PM: Italian Soda Bar
6:30 PM: Arias and Songs by Park City Opera
7:15 PM: Light Bites and Desserts
Program (subject to change):
Depuis le jour from Louise (Gustave Charpentier)
El paño moruno (Manuel de Falla)
¡Vuelve! (Daniel Alomía Robles)
No puedo ser from La tabernera del puerto (Pablo Sorozábal)
Asturiana (Manuel de Falla)
Granada (Agustín Lara)
Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Dmitri Shostakovich)
I. Allegro non troppo
Ariettes oubliées (Claude Debussy)
C’est l’extase langoureuse
Il pleure dans mon cœur
L’ombre des arbres
Chevaux de bois
Green (Aquarelle)
Spleen (Aquarelle)
Estrellita (Manuel Ponce)
Performer Biographies:
Lena Goldstein (Executive Director, Park City Opera) is an American soprano who has made recent appearances with Vox Opera, San Francisco Conservatory, Songfest, Chicago Summer Opera, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Chamber Orchestra. Her recent roles include The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Nora (Riders to the Sea), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Serpina (La serva padrona), and Lady Angela (Patience). Her concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, Muhly’s The Beauty of the Day, and premieres of Carlson’s The Disguise and Beckman’s Hartley Songs. Lena works off-stage to enhance the artistic landscape for emerging professionals through entrepreneurial initiatives. She is Executive Director of Park City Opera, directed the Hot Air New Music Festival, and managed the Opera Theatre of Yale. She is pursuing a master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samuel Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology. www.lenagoldstein.com
David Silvano (Guest Artist) is a Peruvian-American tenor at home in a wide variety of styles. David recently made his role debut as The Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Mobile Opera, and is excited to be among the first to perform with Park City Opera. David has performed in roles such as Don José in Carmen, Martin in Copland's The Tender Land, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and excerpts as Rodolfo in La Bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. In the Summer of 2022, he sang the role of Theodore Billings in the staged premiere of Clint Borzoni's The Copper Queen with Marble City Opera where he was praised by Arts Knoxville for bringing "a deliciously romantic lyrical side" to the character. In addition, he has performed as a soloist in various concert works. During the 2023 season, David was a Resident Artist at Indianapolis Opera, where he covered the role of Don José and sang the role of El Remendado in Carmen. A native of Colorado, David holds a B.M. from Colorado Mesa University and an M.M. from Colorado State University where he studied with John Robert Lindsey. www.davidsilvano.com
Dalloway Smith (Marketing and Publicity Intern, Park City Opera) is an emerging young cellist who is an active member of the arts community in Utah. She uses her talents as a way to connect with others, most evidently in her work as a chamber musician. Dalloway’s grandmother, Ariel Bybee, sang as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera for 18 years; Ariel’s passion for opera continues to grow in Dalloway. Her most recent musical endeavors include attending Ascent Cello and Chamber Music Festival, winning the American Fork Concerto Competition, and winning first prize with her string quartet at the American String Teachers Association Biannual Competition.
Benjamin Beckman (Artistic Director, Park City Opera) is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms, Tanglewood Music Festival, and Royal Concertgebouw Summer Concerts, and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. His 70-minute chamber opera Passage won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for the best-submitted thesis in the music major at Yale, from which he recently matriculated. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Benjamin has worked for the Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera Company of Middlebury, Chicago Summer Opera, and Classic Lyric Arts France and Italy. While a student at Yale, Beckman was the Artistic Director of both the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, through which he facilitated the premieres of 21 student compositions. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he manages the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com